Ultrix 4.2
Brian Kelley
brian at cimage.com
Thu Feb 7 23:55:02 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb1.195843.28684 at ims.alaska.edu> fnddr at acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>One thing that would speed up the upgrade is if the installation process
>wouldn't newfs all of the file systems it sees, making it necessary to restore
>all the user files. But unless there is some trick to bypass it in advanced
>installation, I don't see how to avoid it.
I did the upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1 a couple of weeks ago. The machine was a
system 5400 with three ra type disks. Disk 0 had all of our system on it,
disk 1 had swap and user files and disk 2 just had user files. My user
partitions were _not_ newfs'd. I did the advanced install. Reading the
installation notes (actually, I believe it may have been in the early portion
of the basic installation guide), I recall reading that only system partitions
would be re-made. I backed up everything anyway, of course.
However, if you are going from a pre-4.0 release, it could be different.
I'm not aware of any filesystem changes that occurred which would require
them to be newfs'd (ala SunOS 4.0.3 -> 4.1), but then again, I don't have
any experience with pre-4.0 Ultrix.
>Don Rice Internet: ddr at flux.gi.alaska.edu
>Geophysical Institute E-mail: fnddr at alaska.bitnet
>University of Alaska Phone: (907) 474-7569
>Fairbanks, AK 99775 Loran: 64.86N 212.16E
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